I’m in the process of getting a PC built. I’ve been trawling the forums and Youtube and have come to deciding between 2 builds (attached).
Any advice would be helpful! I’d say my usage would be 50% Premiere Pro, 25% Touchdesigner and 25% Blender. When it comes to Blender, I mostly use it to create content for VJ shows or music videos. I’m trying to strike a balance between smoother real-time performance and improved render/export times.
I’ve been in the Mac world for more than 10 years - so I’m finally making the jump.
Keep in mind, I live in Vietnam, so some components are hard to come by or severely over-priced.
Having a quick look over the two lists and assuming you can mix and match or change some parts out I have the following thoughts:
The Gigabyte P750GM PSU should be avoided at all costs, they tend to EXPLODE.
If you can get a 27" monitor with a 1440p resolution which is still IPS and an OK screen I’d get that. 24" is a bit small now days while 1440p on that small a monitor can make text, etc really small.
The RTX 3060 would be a much much better option then the 3050
One of the builds lists a Samsung 980 M.2 drive, great drive, but likely far from cheap and frankly mostly overkill. Yes it will be really fast, but from a everyday usage point of view, just a normal SATA SSD will do the job. You will notice running out of space long before a couple extra seconds loading a file really matters.
Outside of maybe a AMD 5900x and matching motherboard, the 11700 or K version should be just fine. Can go with whatever is cheapest really.
In many ways, between those 2 build options, I’d just want to mix and match between the two, which would come up with a very good and balanced PC for what you want to do. As they currently stand both go a bit wrong in one direction or another.
I don’t immediately see: "How much RAM?" In my experience this is the single most important factor – even above CPU characteristics. I’d put at least 32GB into a computer today. You need to be as sure as possible that the system will never resort to “virtual memory” during operation.
I think I’m actually going to change my storage to a 970 EVO Plus (1tb), with an additional PCIe 4.0 SSD (500GB)
As for the CPU/mobo - I’ll see how much cheaper the 12600 is, or even if it’s stocked (I live in Vietnam so local stock is limited and generally over-priced). Not familiar at all with overclocking so downgrading the CPU seems like a better option for me.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. The prices listed are not what I will be paying. I just used the PCpartpicker site as an easy way to organise my build for others to look at.
I live in Vietnam where parts can be hard to come by, or generally overpriced, so I am limited to what’s available locally. The 3070 I’m buying here is equivalent to USD$732 (https://tandoanh.vn/evga-geforce-rtx-3070-xc3-ultra-gaming-8gb-gddr6-lhr/), compared to the 3090 which is available locally at around USD$1935…
Depending on where one is, prices can be rather different. In general I’d expect any local price for the 3090 to be way way more then a 3070.
I would really advise against that, going far extreme from one end to the other usually ends up in issues or disappointment at some stage. For any type of 3D/content creation I’d say 32GB RAM is a good starting place and then depending on what exactly one is doing, consider 64GB. I also wouldn’t got with such a fairly low end CPU with only 4 cores, that’s just cutting things back way to far.
At the same time, I also wouldn’t then pump so much money into the 3090. There is only one reason to get a 3090 and that’s if you know you need the 24GB VRAM for rendering. If you do, then chances are its a business and the cost is justifiable. Otherwise, you can get the 3080 12GB version, which in most places will be a good 30%+ cheaper then a 3090 and render within 5-10% as fast as it.
Always a good option if one can manage it. I always have multiple drives in my system and usually arrange it as best I can so that if I’m more likely to write to one drive while reading from another.